One of the nice things about novel writing is that, when I have a good, solid draft or book outline/synopsis, getting a work into publishable form is a lot easier for me than it is, say, for someone who’s trying to “slam a home-run” from the get go. I have all sorts of luxury to bend, fold, spindle, mutilate, warp, and even mutate a story once I have it to that point. And, of course, this also allows me to easily slip in the fun stuff, like sleight of word and innuendo, subtly camouflaged as perfectly straight forward story. *grin* It also permits me to change women to men, even my main protagonist and main antagonist, to change from a sad end to a happy one, to add other, yet even MORE ulterior motives, so on and so forth. It’s a nice thing. Of course, this can lead to option anxiety, too, but, that’s why I can just save it as another file name…which is probably why I have hundreds upon thousands of files, each one different than any other, all of them holding good ideas that I might use sometime, but have discarded for the moment.
Recently:
- Moving is Tough on Writing Novels
- Move complete & back online…when the DSL doesn’t falter
- Offline for a week.
- The ‘I’ Proposition
- No, I didn’t get eaten by my novel.
- Scott Heim reads We Disappear at last reading at Chelsea
- Hunger in the World
- What a Beta Reader Can & Cannot Do
- A Gift for Eternity Finds a Home
- Today’s Giggle: SE vs Employee, the Benefits — Not.
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